Wan Li, a Chinese politician known for his economic reforms, publicly chose the side of the hardliners in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Wan died Wednesday at the age of 98 in Beijing. He was a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
... Tiananmen Square crackdown. Wan was on a trip to North America when the pro-democracy movement broke out and returned home to profess support for Deng. “Wan Li was one of the earliest reformers inside ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-16
China and North Korea will open a border trade zone in the latest effort to boost economic ties despite tension between the countries. The Guomenwan trade zone will cover 40,000 square meters of land ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
... ts of 399 square feet with two bedrooms and two living rooms at HK$15,800 a month. Mainland students have converted the two living rooms into bedrooms and added air-conditioning and lights. Another is ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-14
The Hong Kong housing market has been on an upward trend for 12 straight years. The average home price is already 72 percent above the 1997 peak, with small flats below 100 square meters costing 73 pe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-11
... s 130,000-square-foot monastery, with some offering as much HK$200 million for its spacious land. In the past eight years, over ten private columbarium operators have approached the monastery, offerin ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-11
... only 30.3 square kilometres; it is already one of the most densely populated areas on earth. The prosperity of the past 13 years and the inflow of outside capital, mainly from the mainland, have pushe ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-10
... er 10,000 square meters from the current 7,000 square meters. Also, the ceiling height will rise to 9 meters from 3.5 meters, according to information posted on the government website. The project is ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... ven a 350 square foot shoebox in Tin Shui Wai now costs almost HK$10,000 to rent. You have two options: either find a roommate (or roommates) or rent a subdivided flat barely larger than the size of a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
... f 500,000 square meters, will include facilities for retail, food and beverages, entertainment, conferences, offices and business hospitality. It will be subject to a height limit of 10 stories, becau ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
... ent a 700-square-foot furnished flat in Taichung for the equivalent of around HK$5,000. Eric and his wife are planning to open a Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng, or tea restaurant, there. "We've visite ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... 5 million square feet) in the northeast part of the park is suitable for a public housing project with 30,000 units. Designated in 1979 and occupying 5,412 hectares of woodland in the Western New Terr ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... HK$82 per square foot in 1973. Although the average daily wage was only about HK$25, it was much easier back then for a worker to put a roof over his head. In 1973, the newly born HKEJ newspaper was 2 ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... Tiananmen Square crackdown — and the group’s incumbent chairman, Democratic Party lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan, the report said. Yuen said he respects Lee's decision to enter the mainland, adding that ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... taled 657 square kilometers, National Bureau of Statistics figures show. That is the most unsold space in at least two years, and an area nearly the size of Singapore. The new policy being tested in a ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
... K$110 per square feet to HK$1,100 per square feet. Beijing announced in September 1982 that it would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong. China and Britain then signed the Sino-British J ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... 3,000 per square foot in 2003 but now a home there goes for at least HK$14,000 psf, a fourfold increase in 12 years. Those bankrupt mortgagors would surely strike gold if they were able to weather the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-04
... t 380,000 square meters, and 90 percent of the construction work in the underground portion has already been completed. The government could easily turn the site into the biggest underground shopping ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... Tiananmen Square crackdown, said he wants to know if he will be deemed to be an offender under China's new law and face prosecution if he crosses the border. He made the comments after Sing Tao Dail ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
... igs and 2 square kilometers of fish ponds. Cameras have been installed around the park, and staff will report back to the seismological bureau on the animals' behavior twice a day. "Animals sometimes ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
